Thursday, February 23, 2006

So I hope that most of you know about this: google has denied the US Justice Dept. suponea requesting search queries of its users as well as all of the URLs in google's database. This is super serious turning point in the life of the web, with implications that could last decades. This will probably go to the Supreme Court- hopefully they make the right decision. Good thing that Yahoo! and MSN already turned over their records, as requested...pussies!

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Fair enough, and I have to say I'm disappointed also...however, being devils advocate;

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/01/google-in-china.html

is what google has to say. I think they're disappointed in themselves, but are thinking with a utilitarianism philosophy, which most public businesses do. Remember, google is a public company looking to make money, and like all companies they do crappy things to make money.

I guess I'm just glad that they are trying to stop crappy things from happening here, even though our government, as usual, is trying to do crappy things. I guess it makes me happy to think that we still have enough rights left to have a company stand up and say no, and that I can write on this blog saying so.

In the US, they don't have any problem on giving information about queries when there's an actual crime committed by a user or IP address.But they don't do the same when government is asking for random data to see if there's a crime because Google finds it illegal demand.Until the court decides if the demand is legal or not, or the government changes the law to surely make it legal, Google don't have the obligation to give the data.

In the China case, they have laws that make Google filter their results but I'm sure that Google won't give anything to Chinese government unless they are legally forced by Chinese laws as they do in the US and the US laws.

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